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Last week the dervish spirit was astir again in Khartoum. So was the Mahdi's son. Sir Sayed Abdul Rahman Mohamed Ahmed El Mahdi Pasha lacked his father's messianic complex. But he rode the wave of nationalism that was surging from North Africa to Indonesia. Sir Sayed threatened a second jihad if Egypt won its demand for outright annexation of the Sudan (now an Anglo-Egyptian condomimium...
...Goes Down, which earned its author, a Florida housewife, more money than any first novel ever received prior to publication ($20,000 from the Doubleday-Doran Novel Contest, $125,000 from the M-G-M Annual Novel Award). Life is never dull for Lillian, because Willowspring is astir from dawn to dusk with miscegenation, class conflict, drunkenness, antiSemitism, anti-Catholicism and incest...
...none knew better than Lord Wavell that India was no longer content to remain plunged in thought. All Asia was astir. If Britain wished to keep India in her Commonwealth, she could only hope to tighten the bonds of Empire by loosening them...
...exile. In 1944 he returned in triumph to his free but prostrate country. In the liberated countries, he was the only exile who went back to a people solidly ranked behind him, and the only man who seemed able to control the revolutionary ferments which liberation had set astir...
Last week the Premier and his fellow moderates got a lift from home. Three members of the Polish Underground brought word to London that the Polish people wanted General Sosnkowski stripped of his political power. Forthwith the Council, already astir with proposals to do just that, voted to let the General keep his military command, appoint a civilian Pole as successor to the Presidency...